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> According to OECD, the Copenhagen Metropolitan Region had close to 2.4 million inhabitants in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_metropolitan_are

by older 8y ago

> According to OECD, the Copenhagen Metropolitan Region had close to 2.4 million inhabitants in 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_metropolitan_area

LoSboccacc 8y ago
jesus are we really comparing this https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco+Bay+Area,+CA,+USA/@37.5241264,-122.234265,76008m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808583a3a688d7b5:0x8c891b8457461fa9!8m2!3d37.8271784!4d-122.2913078 https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco+Bay+Area,+CA... and this https://www.google.com/maps/place/Copenhagen,+Denmark/@55.674959,12.1711072,76477m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4652533c5c803d23:0x4dd7edde69467b8!8m2!3d55.6760968!4d12.5683372 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Copenhagen,+Denmark/@55.67... (should open at the same scale) as if they were comparable sprawl?
- nraynaud 8y ago
  Wait the sprawl is caused by the car, not the other way around. People always increase their drive time, if you give them better roads they just sprawl more.
- username90 8y ago
  That is a dumb comparison, the problem we are discussing is that SF sprawl is less dense, of course it will appear huge on a map compared to denser cities. SF metropolitan area is 4.8 million, about twice that of Copenhagen, but its sprawl looks way more than twice the size of Copenhagen sprawl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%E2%80%93Hayward,_CA_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%...
  - LoSboccacc 8y ago
    again, caused by the close proximity of cities splitting up the metropolitan area around the bay, the actual sprawl is of those cities combined as people do commute from one another.
SaintGhurka 8y ago
If you want to compare the metro areas, the San Francisco Bay Area has a population of 7 million. That's more than all of Denmark in a tiny fraction of the space. The comparisons get a little stretched, given the population differences.

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LoSboccacc 8y ago

jesus are we really comparing this https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco+Bay+Area,+CA,+USA/@37.5241264,-122.234265,76008m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x808583a3a688d7b5:0x8c891b8457461fa9!8m2!3d37.8271784!4d-122.2913078 https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco+Bay+Area,+CA... and this https://www.google.com/maps/place/Copenhagen,+Denmark/@55.674959,12.1711072,76477m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4652533c5c803d23:0x4dd7edde69467b8!8m2!3d55.6760968!4d12.5683372 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Copenhagen,+Denmark/@55.67... (should open at the same scale) as if they were comparable sprawl?

nraynaud 8y ago
Wait the sprawl is caused by the car, not the other way around. People always increase their drive time, if you give them better roads they just sprawl more.
username90 8y ago
That is a dumb comparison, the problem we are discussing is that SF sprawl is less dense, of course it will appear huge on a map compared to denser cities. SF metropolitan area is 4.8 million, about twice that of Copenhagen, but its sprawl looks way more than twice the size of Copenhagen sprawl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%E2%80%93Hayward,_CA_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland%...
- LoSboccacc 8y ago
  again, caused by the close proximity of cities splitting up the metropolitan area around the bay, the actual sprawl is of those cities combined as people do commute from one another.

SaintGhurka 8y ago

If you want to compare the metro areas, the San Francisco Bay Area has a population of 7 million. That's more than all of Denmark in a tiny fraction of the space. The comparisons get a little stretched, given the population differences.